## **Veyra: The Material Plane** The center of mortal life. The world shaped by **The Fracture** and divided into continents and isles. Every mortal race traces its lineage to a divine Scion, and the rivalries of the gods echo constantly through its cultures and wars. - **Major Continents:** **[[Solaris]]** (heart of The Solar Host), **[[Umbrith]]** (The Veilbound stronghold), **[[Eryndral]]** (The Wild Accord's domain). - **Lesser Realms:** Thalmyre (elemental frontier), Aetheris (arcane convergence), Cindralith (industrial crucible). - **Role:** The stage where mortals live, shaped and scarred by divine conflict. _Read more: [[The Geography of Veyra]]_ ## **The Astral Plane** The oldest realm, predating creation itself. The Astral Plane is an infinite expanse of stillness and silver light, a boundless ocean of raw thought and unshaped possibility. Time holds no meaning here; will alone gives motion. This is the primordial substrate from which Aureth's first breath awakened and from which all later realms were woven. - **Description:** Silent. Endless. Thought-responsive. It is neither heaven nor hell, but the canvas beneath every divine act. - **Inhabitants:** Few mortal minds can grasp its denizens: drifting thought-echoes, astral leviathans, slumbering concepts, and beings older than the gods whose existence is only half-understood. - **Role:** The origin of consciousness, the highway of souls, and the foundation upon which the Paragons built reality. All planes float within The Astral Sea, though none touch its depths directly. ## **The Celestial Plane** The radiant domain of The Solar Host. - **Description:** Endless sunlit halls, golden fields, and gleaming fortresses. The sky never dims; the light is eternal. The air hums with order, and every path leads to law and judgement. - **Divinities:** **[[Lumeras]]**, echoes of **[[Aureth]]**'s breath, and the Scions of order and civilization. - **Inhabitants:** Angels, dawnforged spirits, and mortal saints. - **Role:** Reward of the faithful, fortress of the Host. To its enemies, a tyrannical realm of endless walls and chains. ## **The Veil** The shadowed dominion of The Veilbound Court, lying closer to The Astral Plane than any realm shaped by the gods. - **Description:** A realm of perpetual twilight - neither day nor night. Mists shroud broken castles, endless caverns, and black rivers. Time runs thin here, memory bleeding into dream. - **Divinities:** **[[Nyxara]]**, **[[Myrris]]**, **[[Althyna]]**, **[[Seraphel]]**, **[[Graven]]**, and other Scions of entropy. - **Inhabitants:** The dead (ferried by Althyna or lost in grief), Vampyr courts, Goblinoid clans, shadow-born creatures. - **Role:** Passage of souls, realm of poison, grief, and shadow. To Solar priests, an abomination; to its cults, a promise of eternal union. ## **The Feywild** The untamed wilderness of The Wild Accord. - **Description:** An eternal, ever-shifting land where forests stretch without end, rivers flow with starlight, and seasons change in moments. Beauty and danger exist in equal measure. - **Divinities:** [[Kaelith]] and Scions of nature, including **[[Faenara]]**, **[[Irisel]]**, and **[[The Horned Stag]]**. - **Inhabitants:** Feykin, Satyrs, Centaurs, Cervitaur, Dryads, ancient beasts, and lost mortals who lingered too long. - **Role:** Realm of freedom and feral power. To mortals, both paradise and peril; time flows strangely, and few who enter return unchanged. ## **Travel Between Planes** - **Rare and Dangerous:** Crossing is not casual. Mortals reach other planes only through rare rituals, divine intervention, or ancient gateways. - **The Celestial Plane:** Accessed only by holy visions or blessed sites - The Solar Host guards it fiercely. - **The Veil:** Brushed in dreams, near-death, or hauntings; full entry requires ritual or Myrris' will. - **The Feywild:** Most "accessible", with hidden crossings in groves, standing stones, or fey circles - but still perilous. ## **The Balance of Planes** Each realm mirrors one of the great divine factions: - **The Solar Host - The Celestial Plane** (Order, Law, Light) - **The Veilbound Court - The Veil** (Death, Entropy, Grief) - **The Wild Accord - The Evergrowth** (Freedom, Chaos, Nature) - **Mortals - Material Plane** (Shaped by all, ruled by none) - And beneath all things, **The Astral Plane** (Origin, Thought, Possibility)